Name that piece! The game

listener · July 14, 2011, 01:26:32 PM

Thanks for that, and for the delete of the earlier messsage.

mszczuj · July 15, 2011, 01:21:14 PM

Quote from: Amfortas on July 14, 2011, 12:41:47 PM
Here is Listener's mystery clip ---

http://www.4shared.com/audio/CnS3FvKn/Listeners_mystery_14_July.html

It is making me curious.

Very curious.

Couldn't we talk about it?

listener · July 15, 2011, 01:46:19 PM

small hint: The composer has a thread in the composer section, this is not a typical genre. I don't think he ever wrote a symphony.

mszczuj · July 16, 2011, 12:31:03 AM

Main theme sounds to me polish or like a Chopin parody. The whole fragment - I would say it may be french music. But I have really no idea who could he be.

What is after these cats from 2:13? How long is this piece?

listener · July 16, 2011, 09:35:48 AM

That was almost the whole piece. Wrong country for the piece and composer, and they are 'different'.

Hattoff · July 16, 2011, 10:37:59 PM

To me, it sounds like Grieg brought up to date. I checked his cello sonata (very nice) but it's not that.

listener · July 16, 2011, 11:34:19 PM

Quote from: Hattoff on July 16, 2011, 10:37:59 PM
To me, it sounds like Grieg brought up to date. I checked his cello sonata (very nice) but it's not that.

Beautiful guess! but not right. It's supposed to sound like that, probably (which should whittle down the choices substantially).

Hattoff · July 17, 2011, 01:05:11 AM

The first person who comes to mind with Grieg connections is Delius! Lovely.
One of his cello pieces?
I don't have a lot of his chamber music (violin sonatas only) so can't work through to find it..

listener · July 17, 2011, 07:55:53 AM

Delius is one of the two I would associate with Grieg, but the composer is the other. Not European.

Hattoff · July 17, 2011, 08:13:56 AM

Aha, Australian?

listener · July 17, 2011, 08:37:30 AM

yes, you've got it....

Hattoff · July 17, 2011, 08:54:30 AM

The amazing Percy Grainger. i don't know the piece. I see he set several folksongs for cello and piano and something called youthful rapture but I don't have them. What is there not to like about PG's music? Not a lot.

Here's the next excerpt.

http://www.4shared.com/audio/QQvc5Rd0/impossible.html

Amfortas · July 17, 2011, 11:22:41 AM

Something by Havergal Brian?

Hattoff · July 17, 2011, 11:42:11 AM

It should be shouldn't it?

I am listening to the Gothic as I type.

If that man was not a genius then the human race should pack it's bags and fly to the sun now, because it ain't gonna do much better.

No not Brian.

Amfortas · July 17, 2011, 11:47:13 AM

Quote from: Hattoff on July 17, 2011, 11:42:11 AM
It should be shouldn't it?

I am listening to the Gothic as I type.

So am I

I have no idea who your composer could be at this point, but Brian seemed a good guess.
sounds like it's from an opera... or some sort of oratorio?

listener · July 17, 2011, 12:05:33 PM

re my last puzzler: Percy Grainger - the Polka Norvégiene from the Suite 'La Scandinavie' (1902)
from this disc
good sleuthing, that was. PS the Gothic came over very well on the internet, great job of microphone placement by the BBC, and that was a very well behaved audience.

mszczuj · July 17, 2011, 12:14:52 PM

Quote from: Amfortas on July 17, 2011, 11:47:13 AM
sounds like it's from an opera... or some sort of oratorio?

As I listen to it I'm all time almost sure I had seen this movie.

listener · July 17, 2011, 12:29:07 PM

sounds Russian to me, Prokofiev On Guard for Peace ?

Hattoff · July 17, 2011, 08:38:37 PM

I thought this one would be difficult!

If mszczuj and Listener get together we are there, but the answer, if you know your onions, will still be unexpected.

Hattoff · July 18, 2011, 10:17:09 AM

Both of you are sort of right. The first one to reply wins